Grant
Awards
The Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund
Each year, The Pearson Institute’s Research and Innovation Fund provides grants to University of Chicago faculty and PhD students conducting research on global conflict. Studies must be rooted in innovative, data-driven research that seeks to understand and reduce global conflict and demonstrates public policy impact.
Researchers awarded a Pearson Grant explore topics that are regionally and topically diverse, each with a focus on using quantitative social science to advance the study of conflict and the potential to advance public policy involving global conflict.
The Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund 2023 Awardees
2023 Awardees
Ari Anisfeld and Pepi Pandiloski
PhD Candidates, Harris Public Policy
Social Learning in Segregated Networks
Maria Angélica Bautista
Senior Research Associate, Harris Public Policy
Elements of an African Theory of International Relations
Raman Chhina and Varun Kapoor
PhD Candidates, Economics
Persistence of Political Conflicts: Evidence from Resettlement in East Punjab
Hope Dancy
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Colonial Agreements Project
Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu
PhD Candidate, Economics
Industrial Policy, Firm Ownerships, and Ethnic Inequality in Malaysia
Luis Martinez et al.
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire
Jose Miguel Pascual Moreno
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
Labor Unions and Mechanization
John Henry Murdy
PhD Candidate, Political Science
How International Criminal Organizations Consolidate Power: A Crisis in Ecuador
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra and Soeren Henn
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy; Lecturer, New Castle University Business School
Challenging Territorial Conceptions of the State: The Bandits Own Perspective
Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
The Causes and Implications of the Pentecostal Movement: Evidence from Nigeria
Madeleine Stevens
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Annihilating “Subversives” and Dehumanizing “Delinquents”: Enforced Disappearance from the Cold War through the War on Terror
Maya Van Nuys
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Policing the International: IOs in the Production of Global Policing Norms
Rebecca Wolfe
Senior Lecturer, Harris Public Policy
Reducing Violence Versus Building Trust: Exploring the Joint Effect of Top-down and Bottom-up Peacebuilding Interventions
2022 Awardees
Michael Albertus
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
State-Building, Long-Term Development, and Rural Stability in Peru
Maria Angélica Bautista
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Where Does Power Lie? Women’s De Jure and De Facto Political Power and Female Empowerment in Eastern Nigeria
Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu
PhD Student, Department of Economics
Industrial Policy, Firm Ownerships, and Ethnic Inequality in Malaysia
Varun Kapoor
PhD Student, Department of Economics
The Social and Economic Consequences of Peasant Rebellions in India
Ben Lessing
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Dynamics of Crime and Public Policy Under Prison-Based Criminal Governance
Zikai Li
PhD Student, Department of Political Science
Interethnic Complementarity and Conflict in British Malaya
Ramzy Mardini
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Rebel in Society: Social Networks, Wartime Consolidation, and the Emergence of the Islamic State
Laura Montenegro Helfer
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
Setting the Foundations for Apartheid: Market Access and the Rise of Afrikaner Identity
Estéfano Rubio
PhD Candidate, Department of Economics
Optimal Redistribution of De Jure and De Facto Political Power: A Mechanism Design Approach, Evidence from Labor Unions
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Morality, Violence, and Opportunism: Inside the Nduma Defense of Congo Militia
Noah Schouela
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
The Politics of Urban Social Topography in Latin America
Madeleine Stevens
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Habeas (Non) Corpus: Enforced Disappearance and States' Repertoires of Repression
Nicolás Torres-Echeverry
PhD Student, Department of Sociology
Party Decay and the Reconfiguration of Electoral Competition under Conflict
Andres Uribe
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Coercion and Democratic Capture in Mexico
Maya Van Nuys
PhD Student, Department of Political Science
Policing the International: Policy Diffusion and the Postcolony
Rebecca Wolfe
Senior Lecturer, Harris Public Policy
Reducing Violence versus Building Trust: Exploring the Joint Effect of Top-down and Bottom-up Peacebuilding Interventions